Israleft.org brings you excerpts from Rami Elhanan’s Speech at an alternative Memorial Day Ceremony held by Combatants for Peace, held on the Israeli Memorial Day, on Monday, April 19th. The excerpts were edited and translated from Hebrew by @normands, and handed over to us by @notIDFspokesman, who is a great source of information about Israeli [...]
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The following is a personal reflection, or some ungathered thoughts about what happened exactly a year ago. This is not an analysis or a review of the war in the Gaza strip and southern Israel last winter, cynically called here ‘cast-lead’. Many of those already exist around the web. I just wanted to add a [...] On the issue of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, some speak of a bi-national state as the optimal solution. In their vision, they see Israel-Palestine as a sort of Belgium or, to a lesser extent, Canada- a country where Jews and Palestinians co-exist under one democracy and lead their lives together happily and peacefully. Just recently the Palestinian chief [...] Almost every year I go to the Yitzhak Rabin memorial, which takes place at the square that now carries his name in Tel Aviv. Almost every year I am disappointed with the speeches, and with what the entire event says about the Israeli left. Yet, almost every year, as my friends swear it to be [...] While Israel maintains that it is the Jewish state, the majority of the world Jewry doesn’t reside in Israel. Based on 2007 figures, only 41 per cent of world Jewry actually do live in Israel. But Israel’s legitimacy as a self proclaimed nation state, while it should [...] Picture, if you will, a country in which people are forced to be wed and to divorce in religious courts; are unable to marry someone of a different religion; where religious legislation forces a certain weekday as the day of rest and prohibits the opening of most businesses; where state-funded public transportation operates buses in [...] Something happened in Tel-Aviv tonight, a milestone in the delicate relationship between minority and majority, left and right, and whatever other classifications you may wish to use here. Tonight a man, and I use this word in its broader sense, walked into a basement room in Nahmani street in Tel-Aviv, a years-old location for [...] As the resident Political Scientist on the blog, I thought it might be prudent to write my first post on an issue that might confuse non-Israeli readers of a blog that features the word “left” so prominently in its title. Throughout the civilized world, the word “left” means something on the continuum between social-democrats and communists. [...] |
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